Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-13

CT HOOD q CO., Ap9thecaTles' Lowell. MASS
to every other community, and the great
est good to the greatest number demands
its prohibition.-E Aurora News.
The charge is constantly being pressed
to the front in this prohibition campaign
thSt il antagonIzes Democratic prInci-
pies and policy, which we deny:
l Jefferson, the father of states right
! Democracy, in his message used the fol-
lowing language: eve recommend to
! the several state legislatures Immediately
! to pass laws putting an immediate stop TO
the perniciOus practice of disabling, by
which the most extensive evils are likely
to be derived If not quickly prevented
2. A Democratic Congress during Jack
sons administration passed law prOhi5-
! ing the Introduction aud, sale of -intoXi-
eating liquors in the United States terri
tories.
| 8. The issuing of liquor ratiOns to the
army and navy was prohibited by law by
! a Democratic administration. This is the
regulation law now in force.
| t. \ Democratic Supreme court has re-
| peatedly decided that states have 8 right
/ to prohibit the liquor traffic within their
| borders.
| .. u D6mCCE&lIC ADMINISTRATORS pIO-
/ hioited the Importation, sale or exchange
/ of Intoxicating liquors into the Indian
| Territory, and what is good for the In
! dians- under Democratic government
/ will be equally beneficial to Texas under
| 10000 Democratic majority.
/ s. Many of the strongest Democratic
! states-and among them Georgia and
! TCxas-have 8 local option law that was
passed by g Democratic Legislature, that
is as stringent in prohibition as the
amendment to the constitution to be
voted on in August, only the law being
local, is more difficult to enforce.
! If We were called upon to make out and
sustain the charge that the Democratic
| party was emphatiCally q prohibition
! party, we could make out q case that
would be accepted before "any court of
competent Jurisdiction" And yet we
are told that prohibition is undemOcratc
| in principle and policy, and is an importa-
| ton from the north, designed to disrupt
the party and break up the solid south.
| The grand old party, based upon the
eternal principles of right and justice,
"the greatest good to the grestest num-
/ ber," has made q splendid record and
will not be wanting next August in fealty
| to the party or the strict adherence to
the principles on which it is based
| Marshall Messenger.
/ ~
/ With these principles in view, those
| VINO will vote against the amendment
may be thus summarized: First, all those
opposed to class legislation; second,
those believing in personal liberty and
| fearing to let the government take this
| long step to absolute Capitalization, TO
| the practices of the inquisition, to that
confusion of individual rights that
| eliminates in one man holding himself
as the source of all rights and all power.
And the classes of people, who will vote
against the amendment, are first the
! Democrats, whose aim has ever been the
utmost personal liberty consistent with
| good government, and whose party tenetS
i have ever been against such paterTAl eX-
| ercise of governmental authority as that
now proposed; and second, are all those
| Republicans, who, though believing in 8
| general central government, are not yet
ready to resign all their individual rights
and privileges. These people and these
! classes are in the vast ajOrity in Texas,
and the defeat of the proposed cOnstitu-
tional amendment seems to be q foregOne
| conclusion Austin Statesman.
The Dallas convention eliminated scrip
I ture and party politics from the anti Pro-
| hlbition platform. "A man may therefore still
! beaDemocrat or church member and vote
/ for the amendment. For so much, we
| give due Credit to the good sense OF the
| new leadership. The contest is now be-
| fore the people on its real merits, and
| there will be no more nonsense but g
good deal. of hard fighting between now
and the final decision at the ballot-box.
i Waco Day.
! AS strong Republican journal, the
! Light would on the narrow ground of
damaging the Democracy of Texas, stand
back and say s'pull Dick-pull Devil"
but the Light is more than a mere politI-
cal partisan. The Light recognizes the
| justice, the intense Americanism, the real
substructure OF civil and political right
which underlies this anti-prohibition
movement, and so cordially supports it
/ from principle alone. 1t does this
while fully assured that the con-
tinual triumph of the anti-prohibi-
! ton cause in Texas is the only hope of
| Democratic success, and the perpetuR-
| ton of Democratic hold on power. Il is
| not because the Light antagonizes the
| Democracy less that it takes this ground,
| but because it believes that the evils to
Texas of q perpetuated Democratic rule
are less than they would be were the state
handed over body and soul to the spirit of
| fanaticism and espionage that is incar-
mated in this prohibition movement
| San Antonio Light.
The f'TrueBlues". met and reso-
| luted., Driven by the patriotic actions Of
Such men as Reagan, Coke and MaxeY,
from making old Democracy defend the
saloon interest, they raise the cry Of
| '"Texas and freedom" and evince de-
termination to fghtit out on that line.
In the nine resolutions adopted, there is
one sentiment running through them al;
that the war for freedom was fought, not
to free US from political bondage, but
that we might have the blessed privilege
OF selling whiskey. Must the citizens of
Texas be led by such sophism as this?
/ Collinsville Times.
The principle of prohibition is an inva-
sion of the right of f-goVernment. Per
sonal liberty is the germ from which
springs all liberties-ciVil, political and
religious-and when it is destroyed they
must perish with it. Governments are
instituted among free men to preserve and
protect the individual IN the enjoyment Of
the inallenable rights with which he
is endowed by his creator against
encroachment by his fellow man;
the rightful domain of govern ept
being TO decide all controversies IT, a.
ing two or more and enforce IN u
cisien. II, however, every man is b.,
his own judge in controversies Wv y
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